Tasteful Friends - Joan Rivers Former UES Penthouse Up For Sale *Again*

Isn’t that the same damn decor from when she died? Did they even bother to update it with their own style?

As per please enjoy history of 1 East 62nd street from favorite Manhattan historical architecture and real estate blog Daytonian in Manhattan.

Too bad it doesn't have the current decor.

Original interiors are still in place from when Joan Rivers bought the place. You can see this from listing on Streeteasy....

Or read following link..

And yet Joan used to talk about worrying about money.

In fact Joan Rivers spent plenty on restoration of the place including on that paneling. Would be a shame to have it ripped out because you can't find that sort of workmanship (much less material) easily today for love nor money. Unless some architectural salvage place nabbed them that paneling if ripped out would likely end up where so much like did; a landfill in New Jersey....

R5 She seemed mentally ill.

I love it including the decor

I don't like the decor. Its like being in my late grandma's house. Too much.

It would take a whole other lifetime for me to understand frou-frou French interiors.

I've been to Versailles and Louvre; and while they are nice enough places don't want to be surrounded by all that gilt and excess ornamentation 24/7.

Jesus, I bet tRump approves.

I bet the next buyer totally renovates it.

The word on the street is it is very run down and it is noticeable when in each room. This is not really the style that the uber wealthy want. It is a complete gut because of the poor materials used and it's run down.

Joan came from a well-to-do Russian Jewish émigré family and spent her lifetime turning her private spaces into The Russian Empire. Not a JAP but a JRP.

r4 .. I vaguely remembering the furnishing were auctioned off.

R5 Joan sometimes said, “It can all be gone in a minute,” so I think she would have worried no matter how much she had. She may have also been saying it to keep the “evil eye” from causing bad things to happen to her financially. Many in her generation stuck to the superstitions brought to the USA from Eastern Europe and Russia/Poland.

R5 - yeah - I remember her saying that she bought the 'small' place with all the money she had. As if she went completely broke buying it.

I do remember her being on a ghost show and saying it was haunted.

It's just a bit much. Who would spend $38 million on that? Isn't it around 30 million overpriced?

Wait, isn't this Joan River's HAUNTED APARTMENT from Celebrity Ghost Stories?

R11 Not enough gold for the previous guy, I think.

I'm not 100% sure, but I seem to recall her buying a second apartment in the same building and expanding the haunted apartment by knocking down the adjacent wall.

R14 I think even wealthy Russian Jews could have everything taken from them in a pogram, so Joan may have always worried it could all disappear at any moment.

R21 - yes, that is true - couple a family's history of pogroms and growing up in the Depression, and you're going to find some people who feel that money is fleeting.

Joan's father immigrated from Odessa, which had a long history of pogroms. Her dad most likely experienced the 1905 one, since they immigrated to the US in 1910, when he was 10.

There's probably a long list of nightmare stories - including the Holocaust - in that family tree.

R1 Perhaps it hasn’t been occupied. It may have been a foreign investment, not a place to live. I read that around 35% of Manhattan condos have absentee owners and are unoccupied..

Unless internationals have some sort of long stay visa they can only spend finite amount of days in USA anyway. Hence yes, many condos owned by wealthy or even just well off foreigners are empty a good part of year.

French family one knows bought a UWS brownstone to have as their place in NYC even though they cannot live there full time. Family travels to city enough and wanted something more personal than hotels. When they aren't there themselves other members of family or friends use the place.

NYC has become a big gaudy hotel for the ultra rich. Do people of average income even live there anymore?

R14 and yet, she turned her face into a JAP face. How ironic.

Jews of Joan Rivers parents generation and even of her own lived through not just pogroms but the Holocaust/WWII. So even though JR herself was safe in USA the message was clear, yes as a Jew you can have everything taken away like *that*.

In fact over sixty years after WWII ended heirs of those who had property taken by Nazis or others still are fighting countries, museums, individual persons, etc... to get things back.

I'm glad to see it hasnt been wrecked by the last owner, hopefully maybe even some of the beautiful furniture is still there. The listing OP posted is from today, and all the pics show it to be completely unchanged

This place is perfect in every way, decor included. I cannot see a single thing I would change. Dream home, I could move in with a Kleensak full of clothes and a laptop and phone and be deliriously happy. I'd rather this than the 350 million pile in California that was on here. A lot of money in property taxes and maintenance fees, but to be expected at that price point. If I had that sort of money, it'd be worth it

I just hope whoever buys this is of a mind to preserve it much as it is. Is there a crazy rich Joan Rivers fan out there that will buy this and maintain it as a memorial/ museum to her, I hope so.

Good to see all the comments in this thread providing context on the history of persecution that Jews have experienced including her family, lest we forget